American hotel chain decided to use smartphones to access hotel rooms with virtual keys.
If this new practice is widespread in the area, there will be one more
reason not to lose your smartphone, when you are traveling. Aloft Hotel
in Manhattan and Silicon Valley will allow their guests to open the
doors of rooms with smartphones.
Upon arrival, guests receive a message on an application which contains
a virtual key. With this key, they will be able to unlock the doors of
their rooms with their smartphones with a simple gesture. According to
the hotel chain, the device will be compatible with the iPhone 4S (or
later) and the latest smartphones Android (using the 4.3 or 4.4
versions).
Technology to open a door with a smartphone was available for a while.
In May, the U.S. start-up August was much talked about it with his
intelligent lock that can be controlled with an application. But
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, which is behind the two
institutions concerned, among the first to embark on the adventure.
It provides for deploying this new technology on the 123 other
establishments owned, by the end of the year. For the first two hotels
that have benefited no one knows how much it cost.
If geeks and young adults become increasingly attached to their mobile
will appreciate this new form of key, it is not certain that this is
the taste of everyone, even if it is inevitable.
At the same time, it shows how smartphones become "everything." And
when you lose, you lose everything too.
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